About the Podcast
rish comedy podcast based on a unique monologue humour format developed by Neal from Ireland. For 20 years Irish amateur humourist, sage, semi-hermetic racanteur, socially awkward cat obsessive, energy drinks misuser and husband Neal O’Carroll has honed the art of starting comedic ramblings with no idea how the first sentence will end, never mind what he will say. And to what end? One-man comedy podcast Into Your Head’s roots include O’Carroll’s long enjoyment of classic BBC Radio panel game Just a Minute. From an early age (27) he was starting sentences with “Two Cats walk into a Bar” more frequently than the average man, initially in early 2000s nonsense humour blog Neal’s Belch on his original Newsburp* website, which spawned the unscripted yet dialogue-laden Matchstick Cats webomics. By 2006, soon to be former moped operator O’Carroll had noticed saying stuff is easier than writing, and the rest is history. Particularly the first 400 episodes, which he insists are dreadful. Luckily the series evolved over seventeen years and another 400 episodes to become the free-flowing stream of unconciousness humour podcast it is today. *No connection to the much later News Burp podcast, another Irish comedy show that later occupied that domain
About the Host
Neal O'Carroll
For 20 years Irish amateur humourist, sage, semi-hermetic racanteur, socially awkward cat obsessive, energy drinks misuser and husband Neal O’Carroll has honed the art of starting comedic ramblings with no idea how the first sentence will end, never mind what he will say. And to what end? One-man comedy podcast Into Your Head’s roots include O’Carroll’s long enjoyment of classic BBC Radio panel game Just a Minute. From an early age (27) he was starting sentences with “Two Cats walk into a Bar” more frequently than the average man, initially in early 2000s nonsense humour blog Neal’s Belch on his original Newsburp* website, which spawned the unscripted yet dialogue-laden Matchstick Cats webomics. By 2006, soon to be former moped operator O’Carroll had noticed saying stuff is easier than writing, and the rest is history. Particularly the first 400 episodes, which he insists are dreadful. Luckily the series evolved over seventeen years and another 400 episodes to become the free-flowing stream of unconciousness humour podcast it is today. *No connection to the much later News Burp podcast, another Irish comedy show that later occupied that domain
